We have answered this questions many ways in previous questions. It depends on what survival means to the specific inmate.  Prison is what you make of it. It can serve as a beneficial learning experience or it can be a living hell. Every inmate has a choice. An inmate can survive prison by simply following prison administration rules and respecting both officers and fellow prisoners. Offenders can make life harder on themselves by refusing to follow the direct orders of

Yes it is a good feeling to have your sentence reduced unless you have to cooperate with the government to get the reduction. Then there is a measure of guilt for putting someone else behind bars and making them miserable because you can't do the time you "earned" for your own crime (our opinion). If you get a reduction for taking the RDAP program, then there is a greater measure of accomplishment as you got the reward for helping yourself

Unfortunately there is nothing anyone on the outside can do to intervene on prison matters. Discipline and punishment is meted out by the rules of the institution and all the inmates know them the minute they are first brought in. If there is a suspicion, the system has it's way of doing things and it will have to run it's course. He will have a disciplinary hearing where there are no lawyers speaking for him, he will have to convince

The letter and photo service from InmateAid is straightforward. You type up a letter and upload photos where applicable - proceed to the Pay Now page and complete the transaction. The letter order flows through our Admin area to the Processing Department. Letters are processed immediately upon entry unless it is after 6pm on Saturday, then the letters do not go through the process until Monday morning. You may check in your My Account area to see the status of

Usually there is a hug and light kiss upon entering and exiting but no touching during the visit. The protocol is standard but there are some visiting room guards that are either less strict or over-the-top strict... be careful not to disrespect the ones that take themselves too seriously.

This is a situation where the answer is not just logistical but personal, and it deserves a direct response. Based on what you have shared, the Substance Abuse Program is the right choice. Being returned to county from work release for a failed alcohol test, even under disputed circumstances, signals to the system that there is an unresolved issue that work release alone was not enough to address. Whether or not your husband believes the test result was accurate,

We do not have any information about the inmate (name, etc.) so whatever we offer herein is just a guess. In the federal system, the inmates MUST serve 85% of their time. There are two possible exceptions.  One, if this person is a cooperating witness or offers substantial assistance in another case that results in the incarceration of other individuals, he could get as much as 50% off his sentence. This would not happen until the other individuals were sentenced and incarcerated.  The

The warrant does not "go away". The issuing judge has probably already given your information to the authorities in the district where the warrant was issued. If it is federal, you should contact an attorney and make arrangements to turn yourself in because the US Marshals will find you. If they have to pick you up, you will find it difficult to get released on bail. Take our strong advice, you want to resolve this as soon as possible -

You might try calling the facility as ask to speak with the case manager, counselor or unit team secretary to get more information.

An inmate calling with a 713 area code displaying means that the carrier for that jail is GTL (connectnetwork.com). Their routing servers are in Houston TX but it has no bearing on the call's locality. Since Chautauqua County Jail is also a 716 number, we would like to know your whole phone number to see if you are in a different rate center (this is what we suspect). If it is, then getting you a Mayville number should reduce the